Dan Gillmor: Part 2 of Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We
So I’m listening to Dan Gillmor’s talk: part 2 of Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We. You can, too: http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s…. I’m not sure if an archive might be available.
The man sitting to my right has a really amazing looking gadget that seems to be a cousin of this computer marketed to car dealers. It’s smaller than my laptop. It has a screen with lines similar to a sheet of paper. He writes on it with a stylus like what people use for personal data assistants. It looks like it has a built-in camera.
I am going to take sparse notes.
One point Dan made a few minutes ago that I think is worth pondering is that he believes in many communities, the citizen journalism is better than the "professional" journalism.
He suggests that news organizations try to get involved in some citizen journalism efforts and try bottom-up journalism.
Once again, I got to explain what OPML stands for (outline processor markup language). (Oh, you heard that? Yeah, that was me.)
People learn to txt msg, er, text message by following and writing newspaper classified ads, he jokes.
